Driving to China (ish) - Day 19
May 19th 2015 Day 19 - Balkash to Almaty:
On day 19 our luck with the police ran out. From Balkhash it was a 400 mile drive to Almaty, the old capital of Kazakhstan. The route on the M36 highway hugs the shores of Lake Balkash in an anticlock arc for 250 miles, then runs due south to the city.
The grassland around was quite barren but the road began to undulate a little to relieve the monotony. We zipped
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